Stuhrer broiler chicken
The Stuhr broiler or Stuhr range chicken was like Winsener broiler one of Ramelsloher native chicken economy race that came to its own for the production of winter broilers and after southwest to Bremen Oldenburg City Stuhr was named.
description
The Stuhrer chicken was very similar to the Ramelsloher. It was just built a little squat and set lower. Its plumage was white, its legs blue. It emerged from crossing the original Ramelsloh country fowl with Cochin , the aim of which was to obtain winter fattening chicks. As in Winsen were Luhe in communities of Delmenhorst Office in winter in the living rooms of small farmers chicken fattened to power in early spring, the surrounding markets with meat.
In Delmenhorst it was valued as the best chicken for this purpose. Dürigen described it as an excellent autumn and winter layer and reliable early breeder. The chickens were tender-fleshed, fine-boned, fast-growing and precocious. Chicks 5 or 6 weeks old were ripe for slaughter, weighing 500 to 650 g. As a country chicken, the Stuhrer broiler chicken was frugal and weatherproof and is said to have been “hardly surpassed” in egg production.
The model description of the Stuhrer Landhuhn mentioned a weight of 4 kg for the rooster, the hen should weigh 3 kg. The head was required to be medium-sized, broad and elongated. The comb “medium-sized, simple, standing upright, slightly turned over in the hen; Bill strong, light bluish to white; Eyes light brown; Ear discs moderately large, red (whitish with a broad red border permitted); Chin flap of medium length; Neck of medium length; weakly curved; Trunk long and broad; Back almost wa [a] straight, with broad, medium-long saddle; Tail carried fairly high, somewhat broad, with sickles of medium length on the cock; Wings of medium length, broad, tightly fitting; Thighs strong, set on broadly, legs of medium length (rather deeper), strong and, apart from the four toes, featherless, blue or lead-gray. Skin delicate, thin and white, plumage white to creamy white (a hint of yellow permitted in the cockerel). The following are excluded from breeding and [awards]: too high and narrow trunk, flat chest, tail carried too flat, narrow rear part, pure white ear discs. (The yellow Hittfeld broiler chicken , which appeared at exhibitions years ago, corresponded to him in terms of size, shape, shapes and properties . "
Literature and evidence
- ↑ a b c Stuhrer Masthuhn , in: Bruno Dürigen : Die Geflügelzucht. 4th and 5th, revised edition, Paul Parey: Berlin 1923, pp. 101f.
- ↑ Thomas Jensen: Das Ramelsloher Huhn , in: ramelsloher-huhn.de, accessed on January 12, 2017.